Mercury exposure assessment: a community-directed research project

We are working with community-based collaborators in the Great Plains to design and implement a pilot study to characterize mercury exposure in tribal communities using both biomonitoring and environmental monitoring. A key component of this project is the inclusion of local high school students in field work/data collection, data analysis, and results dissemination. We mentor local students through high school science fair projects related to population- and community-level metal exposure assessment and plan to expand this collaboration even further beyond the aims of this specific project.


 

Contact me:

Anne (Annie) Nigra, ScM, PhD candidate

Dept of Environmental Health Sciences

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

722 West 168th St, Rm 1107, New York, NY 10032

Pronouns: she/her/hers

724-759-0109

aen2136@cumc.columbia.edu